![]() ![]() ![]() Why would the computers have the same desire for recognition that they did? many engineers figured. intransigent Uncompromising refusing to abandon a position or belief (often an extreme one). inchoate Only partly existing or just begun unformed. Even a woman who had worked closely with an engineer on the content of a research report was rarely rewarded by seeing her name alongside his on the final publication. Informal term for jail (usually humorous). The work of most of the women, like that of the Friden, Marchant, or Monroe computing machines they used, was anonymous. She might spend weeks calculating a pressure distribution without knowing what kind of plane was being tested or whether the analysis that depended on her math had resulted in significant conclusions. A woman who worked in the central computing pools was one step removed from the research, and the engineers’ assignments sometimes lacked the context to give the computer much knowledge about the afterlife of the numbers that bedeviled her days. “Women, on the other hand, had to wield their intellects like a scythe, hacking away against the stubborn underbrush of low expectations. ![]()
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